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lycomorpha · 10 months

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Look at this beautiful small emerald moth 🦋💚 Wishing you all the good bugs for the weekend, Tumblr friends!

I scoop moths out of awkward corners in the trap using a little jar - I don't want to mess up their delicate wings by trying to pick them up with my fingers. Their wing scales come off so easily, and will stick to the oils in my skin. This one had apparently got comfy in the jar and didn't wanna go home though 😂🤷

This moth eats a type of wild clematis that (here in the UK at least) is called traveller's joy in summer and old man's beard in autumn, because of its grey fluffy seed heads. If you have a garden and this plant finds its way in, pls leave some for the moths! Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨

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vandaliatraveler · 2 years

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Virgin’s bower (Clematis virginiana), also referred to as devil’s darning needle, is a native Clematis that just loves to climb and climb and climb. In fact, this woody perennial vine will climb over and through just about any damn thing fixed to the earth. But I absolutely adore it. And those spindly seed heads? They speak “summer” to me.

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #flora #late summer #clematis virginiana #virgin's bower #devil's darning needle

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brightgnosis · 6 months

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Instagram Repost: September 11, 2022

The Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis Terniflora) is finally blooming- also known as Sweet Autumn Virginsbower due to its resemblance to our native Virginia Bower Vine (Clematis Virginiana) 💜 Last year it randomly cropped up over our neighbor's fence, and now a new strand of it seems to have cropped up and even outcompeted the Passionflower (Passiflora Incarnata) I planted in the new garden section this year. Which makes sense as, sadly, it's a class II invasive in the majority of the Eastern United States (although it's not listed on Oklahoma’s Invasive Species list specifically)- on top of being toxic in all regards.

It's an incredibly vigorous grower and Autumnal bloomer. But it only blooms once on the year's new growth, however. So as long as its growth is well controlled, its planted in a protected location, and seed heads aren't allowed to form to maturity, it seems to remain minimally invasive in areas where it's not registered as a destructive invasive. Thus, if you don't live in an area where its removal is mandated, the suggested control method is to take it down to 1 to 2 feet after the blooming season is complete each year, before the feathery seed heads appear.

Of course the preference isn't to plant high-invasive species at all. So always do your research properly prior to planting anything you're unfamiliar with- and always check with your local Invasive Plant Council (or a similar body) to ensure what you're planting ISN'T a classed invasive for your area, and how to control what you have planted already; never plant anything you're unwilling- or unable- to properly maintain, and always consider future inhabitants of your property!

#Instagram Reposts #2022 #Gardening #Great Plains Foraging #Verderer #Garden 2022 #Green Witch #Green Witchcraft #Oklahoma #Personal #Witchy Gardening #Witches Garden #Witch's Garden #Gardenblr #Plantblr #Casual Reminder That Oklahoma Is NOT A Midwestern OR Southwestern State #Herbarium

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unkn0wnvariable · 2 years

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Clematis Seeds by Oliver Andrews Via Flickr: Clematis "Old Man's Beard" seeds forming on finished flower heads along the edge of Twywell Plantation.

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abellaschaos · 2 years

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Clematis seed head

#clematis #flowers #photography #nature

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inthecityofgoodabode · 2 years

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September 2022: Walking Adventure

At the head of the trail, I could see the Bones of the Ancients standing on both sides of the path like silent guardians watching over a forgotten way:

Fragrant clematis growing on sumac:

As I crossed the grassy waste, I spotted an oasis:

People had obviously worked this land recently but now it looked abandoned:

Their harvests missed. The fruits of their labor slowly going to seed:

Grapevine:

Blackberry bush:

Overgrown garden beds laid out like forgotten graves. From left to right, peppers, tomatoes & tomatoes:

A parting glance:

"Hey! What gives you the right To put up a fence to keep me out But to keep Mother Nature in? If God was here, he'd tell you to your face 'Man, you're some kind of sinner'" - Five Man Electrical Band:

Random bone... probably a sign of Feral activity:

Bagworms & pecan trees are like good & evil. “There never is one without the other”:

Why do so many new home developments sound like something from a dystopian novel?

Join us in The Colony. Become one of us in The Colony. Yes. One of us. One of us.

I mean we are living in a low budget production of a cyberpunk dystopia but why rub it in:

Curbside find - 3 water glasses & 6 Artimino Tuscany Countryside Yellow salad plates

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princessmadafu · 2 years

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Markle Gardening for Beginners

Please note: photos not of my own garden

Plants in a Meghan-themed garden:

(1) Showy climbers:

Clematis can look beautiful but needs regular pruning as, left unchecked, it can become invasive; once established it's very hard to kill as it thrives on being hard-pruned, and an old climber can even grow back from a well-chainsawed stump as it has developed an extensive underground support system.

Suggested alternative: Chilean Glory Vine, self-limiting, self-seeding and a mass of red and gold insect-friendly flowers all summer long.

(2) Things that look tropical:

Hostas! But beware!

Hostas are a Slug Paradise! Hostas look exotic and some of them have nice flowers and scent, but they cast a lot of shade and attract unwelcome slimey things that will ruin all your hard work.

Suggested alternative: ferns - dryopteris and blechnum are wonderful.

Plants in a Harry-themed garden:

(1) Ramblers:

I love my wild rose but it rambles all over the place, has no direction or particular purpose other than looking decorative for a couple of weeks a year, and it's prone to blackspot. It's good for insects in Spring, but only rarely produces Autumn rosehips to sustain the Winter wildlife.

Suggested alternative: honeysuckle - ye little gods and goddesses of the garden, I love my honeysuckle; it's full of moths, berries for the birds, and only rambles in one direction. Also it forms sinewy clumps which are perfect for wrens and tits to nest in.

(2) Short-lived annuals: supermarket plants; these are excellent for a quick Summer perk-up and can be easily replaced when their brief attraction fades into a withered, powdery resentment. Suggested alternatives: biennials and perennials; foxgloves, anything in the daisy family, violas, echinops, heck - even dandelions! I asked you the other day not to kill wasps, well now I'm asking you not to kill dandelions. Hoverflies love them. Just pull off the dead dandelion heads before they go to seed!

You don’t need a picture of dandelions, so here’s a space for you to draw your own:

Happy Gardening.

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6hoursofsunlight · 7 months

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I have not had much luck growing climbing plants on this trellis. In the past I tried clematis and ivy, but they did not grow very tall or for very long. This year I planted clematis again and 7 beautiful purple flowers bloomed shortly after planting, then most of the plant died except for this single stem with a seed head. I think that might have been due to lack of sunlight and overwatering. I will leave the clematis alone until next spring to see if it survives the winter. If it dies, I might replant it into another fern rock garden.

Chickweed has overtaken most of the exposed soil in my planters. They make a cute and fluffy ground cover when I keep them regularly trimmed, like in the clematis pot. I recently learned they were non-native and also edible so I tasted some. It has been compared to spinach but to me it just tasted like... a plant, and hard to describe aside from that. I might put it in my salads or as garnish just for the novelty.

#gardening #balconygarden #balcony garden

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surelywhenlively · 1 year

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Clematis 'Bill McKenzie' seed heads

#original photographers #square format #dave beckenham #Kitney-Bailey #efstopiso

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colinblack · 2 years

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Clematis seed head showing natures geometry :-) #spirals #clematis #summer https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMZIPnMk0s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#spirals #clematis #summer

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textless · 3 years

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#flower #clematis #wildflowers #seed head #photographers on tumblr #textless #amadee ricketts #macro #seeds #fluffy #arizona #of course this was in october

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lycomorpha · 1 year

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Emerald moths to improve your day - 2: Small emerald

Another beautiful regular moth trap visitor, the small emerald is a pale blue green gem of a moth. It's caterpillars eat wild clematis, known around here as 'traveller's joy' in summer, and 'old man's beard' in winter because of its fluffy grey seed heads. I don't have any in my garden but there's lots of it growing around town on the railway embankments, so I get this glorious green moth visiting me every year.

Here is one of the egg trays from my moth trap - you can see a small emerald on the left centre row. These trays function as a moth hotel. After moths are attracted to the trap's actinic light, they go to sleep in the box under the bulb, which contains these trays. Then they get woken up by me at 6am, counting, recording and photographing them.

This probably explains why some of them look pretty grumpy. They only just went to sleep for the day and then I come along... Sorry little moths!

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fatchance · 5 years

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#photographers on tumblr #seed head #clematis #San Pedro House #San Pedro #San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area #Cochise County #arizon

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brightgnosis · 2 years

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My Husband and I grabbed doughnuts from our favorite place and went out to the lake this morning since the weather’s been nice.

Instead of walking the creek like we usually do, we were going to go up to the hammock park since we saw they finally put the hammocks up; last time we went to check it out after they announced its installation, it was still significantly overgrown and they didn’t even have the hammocks hung out. But they’ve mowed the whole area since, and we could see the red through the trees signaling the hammocks between the posts.

Halfway up the path, however, we realized there was a actually family with children up there- and that the children were playing on the hammocks, being loud and not even using them properly. We didn’t want to disturb them (or be around the noise, either, frankly). Plus I got distracted by some really interesting Mushrooms at the base of an Oak tree, anyways. So we wound up walking the edge of the creek across from it where we released the Bullfrog Froglet we found last time we were out there.

I got to find some Green Poinsettia (Euphorbia Dentata; also called Toothed Spurge), an unknown Coreopsis that still had one tiny little flower on it, a bit of Illinois Bundleflower (Desmanthus Illinoensis), one solitary stem of Pale Smartweed (Persicaria Lapathifolia), and a whole strand of something else I couldn’t get close enough to get a good look at; it was in the middle of the creek and there was no good path down. Down from that was two different giant strands of Cardinal Flower (Lobelia Cardinalis) with some kind of a Ticktrefoil mixed in with it.

Found the absolute tiniest little green Acorn on the walk back to the car, along with a beautiful Crow feather. Unfortunately Crows are protected, and so we couldn’t take the feather with us. But my Husband and I did take the Acorn as a souvenir. We went to Lowe’s after that and grabbed some Moisture Control Soil, then headed back home finally.

My Saffron Crocus (Crocus Sativus) bulbs from Eden Brothers finally came in last week, so it was planting time finally! I got the old Cat Food containers we replaced but had been saving all summer for them out, and got them planted finally. Also got the garden moved around a bit and discovered that I had my own small strand of Green Poinsettia growing behind our bench and umbrella at the very back of the garden, ha.

Sadly I'm also pretty sure now that, unfortunately, the vining plant that's been growing back there is another strand of the invasive Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis Terniflora) that we found coming over from the neighbor's yard last year, which I think @buddyblanc helped my identify originally. Thankfully, however, this one is actually growing in a well protected spot so it might be manageable- whereas the other one isn't and really needs to be taken out. Especially now that it's coming over the fence line where the wind can take seed.

But this one? I don't know ... I may see about actually keeping it until we move out- whenever that will be- then taking it out properly right before we go. Because I do actually quite like it and it can be managed here if done properly (I just absolutely don't trust anyone else in this house to manage a Class III invasive on their own when they can't even bother managing normal garden flowers like Daisies, Garden Peppers, Mint, or Basil).

#Personal #Daily Life #2022 #Food Is The Ultimate Love Language #Friend Finds #Great Plains Foraging #NonTrad Housewife #Casual Reminder That Oklahoma Is NOT A Midwestern OR Southwestern State #Prairie Magic & Medicine

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jillraggett · 2 years

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Plant of the Day

Sunday 14 November 2021

The small yellow flowers of Clematis orientalis (Chinese clematis, orange peel clematis) are followed by these showy seed-heads. At first they resemble silken threads and later become more like downy feathers. This is a vigorous deciduous climber from Asia and Central Europe. In USA it has been classified as a noxious weed in some states where it has escaped from cultivation.

Jill Raggett

#clematis #Chineseclematis #orangepeelclematis #deciduous #deciduousclimber #climber #seedheads #yellowflowers #wintergarden #plants #gardens #writtledesign #horticulture #garden #cambridgebotanicgarden #botanicgarden #botanic

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inthecityofgoodabode · 2 years

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January 2022: The Last Saturday

We only had two red potatoes left so I made a tiny batch of smothered potatoes for breakfast:

But the potatoes had lots of eyes so... seed potatoes are curing:

Corks beat out wood when it comes to taking the longest to break down. I’m starting to think they might be better as a bottom liner for planters instead of pot shards or stones: